 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AN OVERVIEW Rhode Island MINERALS & COLLECTORS F. WILLIAM MILLER Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford...A L SPECIES and many varieties occur within Rhode Island. Part of this abundance is attributable to the...Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including...towns of Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport...Newport County. The greatest number of species and varieties appear in the Northern Zone. Miller attributes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | adjectives, e.g., chromian montmorillonite, chromian nontronite. Key Words-Chlorite, Chromium, Nomenclature,...from the Lucky Hill pit, Candelaria mine, Mineral County, Nevada. This clay was subsequently identified...properly termed chromian montmorillonite or chromian nontronite, or are mixtures of various chromium-bearing...Thompson district, Utah (McConnell, 1954); the Slick Rock district, Colorado (D. R. Shawe, unpublished information);...information); the Gartra prospect, Moffat County, Colorado (Cadigan, 1972); the Placerville area, Colorado |  | | Book | | ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALASKA Famous mineral localities: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (by P. B. Leavens & R. W. Thomssen) 8:4-12...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and |  | | Journal (issue) | | Three Articles The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, A rizona by G. B. Allen & W. Hunt 139 James...aerially extensive Osborn Ag-Au district of Maricopa County in west-central Arizona. The primary property in...meters of dark gray to green laharic sedimentary rock that has abundant phyllite clasts, (3) a thin flow...The large dump below the adit contains much barren rock but, with some searching, mineralized material can...dump above the adit mostly consists of mineralized rock. Outcrops peripheral to the old workings include |  | | Book (volume) | | Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...gratefully dedicated. Gene Foard (right) at Swamp #1 quarry, Topsham. Gene Foard speaking with Frank Perham...Gene Foard with Yan King, 1994 (left) at Nevel quarry, Newry. In Memoriam Gene Foord Gene [Eugene Edward]...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified |  | | Journal (issue) | | .. 89 by A. Ingelson Minerals of the Puu o Ehu quarry, H aw aii........................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...a good man with a good car that would give me a rock bot tom price for my trips. I couldn’t figure out...Some of the veins cut the limestone of the country rock without any visible signs of alteration while in...Tercera, a few specimens of limestone or igneous rock, highly altered and recrys tallized, showed contact |  | Pelleter, Ewan, Fouquet, Yves, Etoubleau, Joël, Cheron, Sandrine, Labanieh, Shasa, Josso, Pierre, Bollinger, Claire, Langlade, Jessica (2017) Ni-Cu-Co-rich hydrothermal manganese mineralization in the Wallis and Futuna back-arc environment (SW Pacific) Ore Geology Reviews, 87. 126-146 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.09.014 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | oxyhydroxides, metal-rich, seafloor, Wallis and AC Futuna Island, South-West Pacific ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Abstract...highly variable amount of amorphous silica and/or nontronite. They usually exhibit low to very low D metals...Pelletier et al., 2001). West of the SC R Futuna Island, the 20-30° trending Futuna spreading center is...(Pelletier et al., 2001). South-east of the Futuna Island, NU bathymetric maps and reflectivity data clearly...D Samoan plume is stronger west of the Futuna Island particularly in the northern part of the Futuna |  | | Journal (issue) | | severe injury. Typ *Reprinted by permission from Rock & Gem, September 1988. 178 ically, old shafts contain...both continuous chemical oxidation and physical rock stress. Historically, roof collapse in caves is...compromises the effectiveness of any ground support. Some rock, or “ground,” such as that near fault zones or certain...timbers can be as deadly as the rock fall which will probably follow. Rock bolts—steel rods two to ten feet...achieve support by locking fractured rock sections together. Rock bolts are also used to suspend compressed |  | | Journal (issue) | | Prices in 1888 Back in March-April 1980, Lawrence Conklin wrote a short article for the Mineralogical Record...54 years between 1888 and the 1942 catalog that Conklin wrote about. In 1942 a 1797 Rashleigh still sold...Anthony Wright, long-time proprietor of Wright 's Rock Shop in Hot Springs, Arkansas, was born in Lubbock...Technological University (1964-1967), and Little Rock University (1968, BS in Geology, Ecology, Biology...only 14 he purchased the entire stock of a local rock shop. He had also purchased large lots of minerals |  | | Book (volume) | | publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Gerais, Brazil, better than those from the Harvard quarry in Greenwood? Are the morganites of Cerro de Urucum |  | | Book | | Jay in this of popular the Ellis Ransom, Rock-huntefs Range Guide, tells everything you need...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...as well as a dis- cussion of the basic kinds of rock: igneous, sedimentary, Once and metamorphic. ...by Jay FOSSILS IN Ellis Ransom AMERICA THE ROCK-HUNTER'S RANGE GUIDE ARIZONA GEM TRAILS PETRIFIED...or silver; an angry mule skinner reaching for a rock to throw at an obstreperous mule, only to discover |  | | Journal (issue) | | 307 by ]. P. Cassedanne Mineralogy of the Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz, California..........................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...across the U.S. and visit dozens upon dozens of “rock shops.” There seem to be fewer now. And what about...such as Lapidary Journal Gems and Minerals, and Rock and Gem. For the last decade their readership has...peak circulation 38,300 in 1977; 20,600 in 1985. Rock & Gem peak circula tion 96,200 in 1976; 54,400 |  | | Journal (issue) | | M. England & N. Robinson Zeolites from Phillip Island and Flinders, Victoria ..................... 451...W. 2006 Australia INTRODUCTION Australia, the island continent with a land area almost exactly the same...of some clay and “ stone” taken out of a “slate” quarry which the Governor thought contained some metal...and valuable specimens from the strange southern island continent. If that be the motive, there is no evidence...of languages. In 1836 he was appointed “Mine and Quarry Agent and Geologist” to the South Australian Company |  | | Report (issue) | | Deposits in the Dripping Spring Quartzite Gila County, Arizona GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared...·Deposits • ln the Dripping Spring Quartzite Gila County, Arizona By HARRY C. GRANGER and ROBERT B. RAUP... Canyon Creek monocline_ _ _ _________ ________ Rock Canyon monocline____ _____ __ __________ Mule Hoof...___ ---------Unmetamorphosed rock _________ ---_-------Metamorphosed rock _______________ --------Mesc...deposits. FIGURE 1. Index map of part of Gila County, Ariz., showing location of monoclines and uranium |  | | Report (issue) | | ........................14 Tables 1. Intrusive rock compositions associated with selected porphyry copper...minor axes of extent of altered rock, orebodies, and sulfide-bearing rock in kilometers together with the...the total area of altered rock, ore, and sulfide-bearing area, in square kilometers for selected deposits...and as disseminated grains in the adjacent altered rock matrix; 2. Alteration and ore mineralization at...magmatic arcs above subduction zones; 3. Intrusive rock complexes that are emplaced immediately before porphyry |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...YUMA COUNTY NAME CHANGED Is nothing sacred? The famous Red Cloud mine is no longer in Yuma County, Arizona...divide the county in two, the northern half (more or less) being renamed as the new county of La Paz....Paz County, Arizona.” Other mines, mining districts and localities that are now in La Paz County include:...In any case, all specimens collected in La Paz County from this time forward should be so labeled. Location |  | | Journal (issue) | | Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ...........................................................................225 by L. H. Conklin Columns Notes from the editor ................../# 6 C alifornia Issue B enitoite, G old, L .A . County M useum , H im alaya m ine $7 Circulation Manager...granitic bands occupy the zone adjacent to the wall rock. A fault (trending N30°E, dipping 70°SE) intersects...and argillized feldspar are visible near the wall rock contacts. Euxenite-(Y) (Y ,C a,Ce,U ,Th)(N b,Ta |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Czechoslovakia France Germany Japan Italy Mexico Namibia USSR USA Zaire Total Total number of species during 5-year...crystals of stolzite (Ed. note: see also Foord and Conklin, 1982, for the best Tsumeb stolzite.) The highly...photograph. 216 BIBLIOGRAPHY FOORD, E. E., and CONKLIN, N. M. (1982) Stolzite from Tsumeb. Mineralogical...operating mine is the White Pine mine in Ontonagon County at the southwest end of the district. The great |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Thomas P. Moore Niantic, CT Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas...with an REE europium depletion similar to that of island-arc andesites, and thus are of shallower magmatic...vertically. The complex and colorfully banded skarn rock has been used for ornamental stone lining the interiors...ancient hydrothermal cavities found in the host rock. These range from a few centimeters across to house-size |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral from the Clear Creek claim, San Benito County, California ............269 by A. C. Roberts, M...howieite, and zussmanite at the Laytonville quarry in Mendocino County, California. He brought the minerals...area to be responsible for (as, for example, a county or state museum), but there would be no particular...chief chef for a hospital (I believe in Sonoma County), was an expert on rare conifers of the California...under datolite in the hydrothermally altered wall rock of the open cavity in the upper part of the Main |  | | Journal (issue) | | in Republican politics; his first vote was for Lincoln and he was an Elector for McKinley and Coolidge...Roebling was bom on May 5, 1837, in Saxonburg, Butler County, Pennsylvania, the eldest of three sons of the...been rewarded by having a mineral named after him—a lime silicate from Riverside, Cal. [foshagite], probably...sort of trips have been 16 From Roger’s famous [quarry] at Riverside I have at last suc ceeded in getting...9 0 Figure 2. Fluorapatite from the Pulsifer quarry, Au burn, Maine. This is the famous “ Roebling |  | | Journal (issue) | | & M. Koval Mineralogy of the Killie mine, Elko County, N ev a d a ........................413 by G. E....................................423 by L. H. Conklin What's new in minerals? ........................come. In fact, the article in this issue on D uff quarry pyrite would probably not otherwise have been pub...habits have been col lected at the Duff quarry in Logan County, Ohio, for more than ten years. The crystals...collectors alike. Pyrite crystals from the D uff quarry rarely exceed 5 mm across, and the larger ones |  | | Report (issue) | | financially in part by, the numerous Federal, State, County and City agencies listed on pages A133 to A136...of water use______ Water resources of Providence, Rhode Island, and vicinity.------------ -------Water..._________________________________ Geologic mapping in Rhode Island-___________ Geologic mapping in Connecticut___________...geophysical studies_________________ Ground water in Rhode Island _______________ Quality of water in the St....____________ Quality of ground water, Delaware County, New York_._____________________________ Shield |  | | Other Paper | | MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS: COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS, STORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS...and J. Michael Howard MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS: COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS...Introduction…………………………………………………………………... 17 Kimzey Calcite Quarry………………………………………………………. 18 Perovskite Hill………………………………………………………………...Locations………………………………………………………………... 21 Diamond Jo Quarry…………………………………………………………... 21 Eudialyte Syenite...Minerals……………………………………………………………….. 24 Martin Marietta Jones Mill Quarry………………………………………….. 27 Pseudoleucite Crystals and |  | | Book | | from the Franklin marble occurrences in Orange County, New York, was purchased in 1914 by the New York...mining activities in the area now called Sussex County were for iron. The earliest of the five iron furnaces...on magnetite ores began much earlier in Morris County, and the bog-iron deposits of the Pine Barrens...Mine Pond and the Furnace (or Fowler) limestone quarry on Cork Hill, where traces of it still remain....Stirling at his Charlottesburg furnace in Passaic County, and again by J. O. Ford and Samuel Fowler at the |
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